“It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.”

“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. ”

“His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.”

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”

“As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk”

“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”